The paintings starkly reveal the artist's descent into dementia, as his world began to tilt, perspectives flattened and details melted away.
The exhibit, spanning the artist's life, reveals a rich imagination that encompasses big-eyed figures, tilted perspectives and touches of the surreal.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of vertically aligned MWCNTs of an approximate length of 2 µm and 80 200 nm diameter in a top and b 20° tilt perspective Open image in new window Fig. 2 SEM images of MDA-MB-231 cells adhering to MWCNT-based scaffolds.
Other Libyans I met expressed the same sense of dawning outrage, as if the collapse of Qaddafi's authority tilted their perspective on everything.
Such lectures are followed from a slightly tilted, oblique perspective.
Our writer Devin Coldewey did a deep-dive earlier this year into how Facebook uses AI to stitch together real layers of the photo with what it infers should be there if you tilted your perspective.
And instead of opting for a top-down, metaphysical approach, philosophers read and reread the scientific files, the avalanche of papers produced by laboratories worldwide, with evenly-poised attention, from a tilted, oblique perspective, using revelatory signifiers (complexomics, gnotobiology, etc).
So when an artist comes along and brings a fresh viewpoint, it can really tilt your perspective.
But on the other, "no modern reader can find her emotionally plausible," and even ancient writers gave her lovers or, like Ovid, realistically filled in the psychological gaps, tilting the Homeric perspective on the Penelope-Odysseus marriage and anticipating modern efforts large and small, like Dorothy Parker's short poem "Penelope" or Margaret Atwood's 2005 novel "The Penelopiad".
Zoë Heller, though, is less interested in examining the reasons for their affair or its moral repercussions than in tilting the reader's perspective through a narrator who has her own agenda.
